Cognition and Thinking

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What is cognition?

  • Physical activity involved in understanding information
  • A process of forgetting information
  • A mental state of confusion
  • Mental activity involved in understanding, processing, and communicating information (correct)

What are concepts?

  • Physical representations of objects
  • Mental categories used to class together objects, relations, events, abstractions, ideas, or qualities with common properties (correct)
  • Mental barriers to understanding
  • Abstract mathematical equations

What is a prototype?

  • A specific example of a concept
  • An abstract representation of a problem
  • A mental barrier to problem solving
  • A concept of a category of objects or events that serves as a good example of the category (correct)

What does problem solving involve?

<p>An important aspect of thinking (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is understanding the problem in problem solving?

<p>Requires the parts of our mental representation of the problem to relate to one another in meaning (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is a prototype?

<p>A concept of a category of objects that serves as a good example of the category (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is an exemplar?

<p>A specific example used to represent a mental category (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What do concepts represent?

<p>Objects, events, activities, and visions of things that never were or cannot be measured (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is problem solving in thinking?

<p>An important aspect of thinking (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is crucial to cognition?

<p>Concepts (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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